The Circle viewers praise Georgina Aurelia for raising awareness about Crohn's disease
She spoke candidly about her condition
The Circle contestant Georgina Aurelia has been praised by the show's viewers, after she opened up about living with Crohn's Disease and having a stoma bag.
In the show's opening episode last night (24th September), the 21-year-old said in her VT, "I have Crohn's disease. It's an autoimmune disease. I had an ileostomy bag for about seven years.
"It's kind of weird having a bag because it's your new a**e, so you still fart out of your stomach. I don't think you lot realise how easy we have it when we have a bag. I can watch the whole of the Titanic and not get up to go to the toilet. That is a blessing."
Revealing that she wants to raise awareness of Crohn's Disease, Georgina confessed, "If you have an invisible disability or if you have a bag like I did, you still have to grab life by the balls and take on every opportunity you can.
"I also want to promote the idea that you shouldn't judge people and that you should give everyone a fair chance, not just class them as disabled so they can't do this, that and the other."
"We can live our life, we can enjoy life and Crohn's is just not going to win or stop you having new experiences or making new friendships."
Georgina, whose favourite celebrity is Megan Mckenna, has also said she'd "firstly...get myself a really nice handbag" if she won the money. However, she'd "also donate to Crohns and Colitis UK and then I'd invest the rest, probably into property."
Fans were quick to take to social media, praising Georgina's frankness about her condition. One Twitter user said, "Omg great to see ostomate Georgina on #TheCircle raising awareness! Go on girl', whilst another wrote 'G'warn Georgina rocking that sstoma bag in her pics!!'. sic
We can't wait to see what she gets up to!
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